{"id":3218,"date":"2020-03-09T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2020-03-09T10:48:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T10:48:32","slug":"ep-deadline-is-only-7-days-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/2020\/03\/09\/ep-deadline-is-only-7-days-away\/","title":{"rendered":"EP Deadline is Only 7 Days Away!"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<p class=\"byline author vcard\">\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The annual deadline for students to log co-curricular activities for Employability Points is <strong>16<sup>th<\/sup> March 2020 (5pm)<\/strong>. To apply for EP rewards you need 50 points for employability &amp; skills development sessions sessions and \u00a310 Amazon vouchers, 100 points for work shadowing, 150 points for work experience, 175 points for project placements and 200 points for an internship.<\/p>\n<p>If you have not quite got enough points yet, here are some handy tips from the EP team:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remember, you can claim points for all co-curricular activities undertaken whilst you have been registered as a student at the University of Kent. These can be activities undertaken in past academic years.<\/li>\n<li>You can log activities undertaken off-campus, such as job interviews, assessment centres, part-time work, etc.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot log your year abroad or placement year if it is a part of your degree, but if you did anything extra whilst undertaking these activities (training, volunteering, networking events, etc) you can claim points!<\/li>\n<li>If you are undertaking the Global Skills Award and have undertaken enough workshops and lectures to receive the award, you can claim a further 15 points!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are looking to get involved with more activities to earn points, here are some ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All students can complete the Careers Award and claim 60 points.<\/li>\n<li>Short-term Study Plus courses are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/studyplus\/courses\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Careers Service are running a range of workshops. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ces\/events\/CEScalendar.html?view_by=month&amp;tag=careers\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good luck and remember, get involved! Get rewarded!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual deadline for students to log co-curricular activities for Employability Points is 16th March 2020 (5pm). To apply for EP rewards you need 50 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/2020\/03\/09\/ep-deadline-is-only-7-days-away\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44118,"featured_media":3215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[205106,205105,167695,205104],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3219,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions\/3219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}